SCBO - Procurement Services

South Carolina Business Opportunities

Published by Division of Procurement Services - Delbert H. Singleton, Jr., Division Director

Ad Category: Sole Source and Emergency

Notice Start Date: May 18, 2023

Notice End Date: June 2, 2023

Vendor Name: PathFinder Network

Contract Amount: 200,000.00

Agency Procurement Manager: Myrtle deWerdt

Agency Procurement Manager Email: bidsubmissions@doc.sc.gov

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 803-896-8533

The Agency hereby provides notice that it intends to enter into a sole source contract per S.C. Code Ann. §11-35-1560 with Vendor for the following supplies, services, information technology, or construction:

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

This is a (1) year Sole source with (4) automatically renewable (1) year Terms for a potential of (5) Years

Initial Term: 06/02/2023 – 06/01/2024 Potential Term: 06/02/2023 – 06/01/2028

The South Carolina Department of Corrections intends to Sole Source The Pathfinder Network for (1) year with (4) additional (1) year options for the procurement of license, curriculum, training materials, and any updates for Parenting Inside Out. Parenting Inside Out (PIO) is an evidence-based, cognitive-behavioral parent management skills training program created for incarcerated parents.

At the core of Parenting Inside Out is Parent Management Training (PMT). PMT includes communication, problem -solving, monitoring, positive reinforcement, and non-violent discipline techniques. With input from inmates and their families, researchers built upon the PMT curriculum to make it effective within the context and restrictions of parents and families involved in the criminal justice system. PIO addresses the unique situation and issues of systems involved parents. PIO:

Is outcomes-based
Is learner-centered
Uses social learning theory to teach cooperation and problem-solving in the context of learning parenting skills
Helps parents promote healthy child adjustment, prevent child problem behavior, and build resilience in children

Parents develop and refine social interactional skills and citizenship behaviors they can use in all aspects of their lives and that will help them guide their children toward becoming positive, constructive adults.

The PIO program gives parents a way of navigating life that uses healthy, pro-social skills to interact with children, partners, co-parents, officials, friends, and family. SCDC intends to use PIO-60, PIO-48, PIO, 24 and the coach training program.

The copyrighted materials related to the above referenced curriculums include course-specific participant manual, profiles, assessments, survey as well as other copyrighted and trademark-registered materials.

Parenting Inside Out is wholly owned by The Pathfinder Network and is not distributed through or provided by anyone but The Pathfinder Network. The Pathfinder Network retains the exclusive rights in granting a license for use of its intellectual property.

RESPONSE PERIOD ENDS AND MUST BE SUBMITTED BY DATE INDICATED ON FRONT PAGE

The Award becomes effective after opening / date and time if no responses are received

This notice will be posted in the South Carolina Business Opportunities (SCBO) for at least (5-10) business days as required by

SC Code 11-35-1560.

PROTESTS:

If you are aggrieved in connection with the intended award or award of the contract, you may be entitled to protest, but only as provided in Section 11-35-4210. To protest an award, you must (i) submit notice of your intent to protest within (5) business days of the date this notice is posted, and (ii) submit your actual protest within fifteen days of the date this notice is posted. Days are calculated as provided in Section 11-35-310(13). Both protests and notices of intent to protest must be in writing and must be received by the appropriate Chief Procurement Officer within the time provided. The grounds of the protest and the relief requested must be set forth with enough particularity to give notice of the issues to be decided. Any protest or notice of intent to protest must be addressed to the Chief Procurement Officer and submitted in writing.

Chief Procurement Officer -Materials Management Office

1201 Main Street, Suite 600 -Columbia, SC 29201

Facsimile: 803-737-0639

E-mail: protest-mmo@mmo.state.sc.us

Agency's justification for a sole source procurement may be viewed or immediately obtained at: Web Address Where Item Is Posted
URL To View Justification: https://webprod.cio.sc.gov/SCSolicitationWeb/contractSearch.do?solicitnumber=5400025366

PROTESTS:
Any actual or prospective bidder, offeror, contractor, or subcontractor aggrieved in connection with the intended award or award of this sole source contract, shall notify the appropriate chief Procurement officer in writing of its intent to protest within five (5) business days of the date this notice is posted. Any actual or prospective bidder, offeror, contractor, or subcontractor who is aggrieved in connection with the intended award or award of this sole source contract and has timely notified the appropriate chief procurement officer of its intent to protest, may protest to the appropriate chief procurement officer in the manner set forth below within fifteen days of the date this notice is posted; except that a matter that could have been raised as a protest of the solicitation may not be raised as a protest of the award or intended award of a contract.
A protest must be in writing, filed with the appropriate chief procurement officer, and set forth the grounds of the protest and the relief requested with enough particularity to give notice of the issues to be decided. The protest must be received by the appropriate chief procurement officer within the time provided above. Days are calculated as provided in S.C. Code Ann. § 11-35-310(13).

Any Notice Of Intent To Protest And Protest Must Be Addressed To: Materials Management Officer